Yes, the Kirkland brand at Costco.
They sell out quickly. People buy them and sell them at mark up on eBay and Amazon.
Fruitcake: yes/no
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They sell out quickly. People buy them and sell them at mark up on eBay and Amazon.
Depending On Quality should have been a choice. That's my choice.
I adopted one of those once from a coworker whose wife had gotten it from the parents of one of her students. I agree. That was a good fruitcake!
O.H.
Phil:
Hmmm...the Kirkland brand at Costco, you say (looked on-line w/ no luck [Costco, Amazon, etc..]...shucks).
They sell out quick, but they get shipments in periodically.
When they have them I buy a half a dozen so I have plenty for me and the family.
Phil:
I'll keep looking.
I don't know if Costco even shows them on line. I just go in to the two local Costco's to see if they have any.Phil:
I'll keep looking.
View attachment 1377343"You can't be sad when you're holding a slice of fruit cake"! Author Unknown
Stollen or Chocolate Pannetone would go well with coffee...
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The Trappist Monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani make a very good fruitcake but I like even cheap fruitcake.
Trappist Monks make the best beer and fruitcake.
The first batch of this year's, now aging with Amontillado, has very little cake, but what there is is loaded with molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and mace.The fruits and nuts (candied citron, dried sour cherries, slivered almonds, chopped dates, and currents) were soaked in orange juice and Irish whisky. The next batch will also have a bit of candied fruit mix. I miss S&W candied fruit. It was all my mother ever used (with Cognac).
Mace is also the husk of a nutmeg. Similar flavor but not identical.
I know, the lacy outer husk. Just being silly. Sorry 'bout that!
I liked your take, figured you knew, but 'splained it anyway 'cause that's what men do.
I absolutely love Fruitcake, I won one in a cake raffle from a lovely older woman in high school and I expected to hate it, however, It was love at first bite. 
Also wine jelly, superb with roast leg of lamb.
In our family, "fruitcake" meant this:
The problem was ... we were exposed to it as kids, along with these ...
... so you can imagine which we preferred. Not fruitcake ... and so it got a bad reputation with us as "the stuff that is last on the goodie plate". Sat next to chocolate-this and caramel-that and chocolate-and-caramel-something-else, it was way too plain and not-sweet to be able to compete. It wasn't a treat.
As an adult, I can appreciate it for what it is, but I still have to push back those childhood memories of "ugh ... fruitcake." I probably would be better off if they had never allowed me to try it before my 30th birthday.
The problem was ... we were exposed to it as kids, along with these ...
... so you can imagine which we preferred. Not fruitcake ... and so it got a bad reputation with us as "the stuff that is last on the goodie plate". Sat next to chocolate-this and caramel-that and chocolate-and-caramel-something-else, it was way too plain and not-sweet to be able to compete. It wasn't a treat.
As an adult, I can appreciate it for what it is, but I still have to push back those childhood memories of "ugh ... fruitcake." I probably would be better off if they had never allowed me to try it before my 30th birthday.
LOL. I just found a Christmas pudding at the back of the cupboard that I think was in a hamper from last christmas.
Still good, though...
Still good, though...
